USS Oakland (CL-95)

USS Oakland (CL-95) was a US Navy light cruiser that was laid down on 15 July 1941 by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at San Francisco, California, launched on 23 October 1942, and commissioned on 17 July 1943. She was named for the city of Oakland, California. She was a part of the Pacific fleet during World War II, and she took part in amphibious support operations before fighting at the Battle of Leyte Gulf; on 24 October 1944, she shot down several Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service kamikaze pilots, while some managed to crash into her. She also took four kamikazes at the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. She was decommissioned in 1949 and sold for scrap ten years later.